| okay folks, friends, romans, countrymen--
i am OUTTA HERE in less than twenty-four hours.
just packed up all my things, and i like the look
of one hiking bag being the home on my back
for three months, everything condensed. only
the most essential things coming with me.
[the largest and heaviest, of course, being my
greek textbook. wow. what a loser.]
what more can i say? i wrote to mr. g yesterday
about america, manifest destiny, the great push west
and how that helped to form our nation's identity--
then the way that i want this trip to be a small part
of that historic search for self and self-reliance
and discovery of the gorgeous & eclectic nation we live in.
kerouac before me, conestoga wagons before him,
i am so ready for this.
jesus.
of course, i won't have internet access.
i'll have cell service sometimes, but i don't know
when or where-- so call whenever you feel like,
leave a message, and i'll call back as soon as i can.
those of you whose addresses i have, will get letters.
lots and lots and lots of them.
and i'll catch the rest of you after the long road back to myself.
i love, love, love all of you.
take care. be good to yourselves.
i'll be thinking of you.
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"Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the
usual thing for campuses and college people to think when a real man
appears on the scene-- colleges being nothing but grooming schools for
the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect
expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses
with lawns and television sets in each livingroom with everybody
looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time
while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear
the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars,
to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless
crapulous civilization."
-Mister Kerouac. |
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| 1) exammmmmmmmm.
2) packpackpack.
3) last radio show of the semester!
midnight! listen! yeahyeahyeah!
[tomorrow]
4) bring stuff to allison's house
5) sleep (?)
6) home one week, gone the next.
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| after a conversation with adam,
about three minutes ago--
it has officially been un-officially
established that i have a radio show.
tonight.
from midnight through two a.m.
following the great simon moody.
[you should listen to him, too]
but. seriously.
radio.marlboro.edu
it will stream right through your Itunes/Media Player
BRING IT BACK
two full hours
of 90's nostalgia bliss.
listen, and be enraptured. |
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